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Those damn yellow ribbons

You've seen them too. Slapped on the backs of gas guzzling SUVs driven by security moms. Magnetic yellow ribbons emblazened with the oh so clever phrase, "support our troops." Yes, support them by reinforcing the reason they are there: using up all the fucking oil. I am tired of these false gestures. These pitiful attempts at patriotism by the right, by the middle Americans, by the common masses. I've had it with them. I want them to stop wallowing in their ignorance and wake up. Ribbons do not support our troops. Paying them supports them. But we don't pay them. We talk about how much we support them, over and over and over again. Yet we do nothing to actually help them. Critizing the war is seen as bad form, as if questioning why they are there, why they are being wasted will someone destroy that person's soul. No, speaking out will help them. I give up. Real patriotism, real support need not slogans and buttons. It needs actions and buying a ribbon at Wal-Mart does not put money into a soldier's pocket or support his little baby or him when he returns from Iraq one arm shy. It just puts cash in the pockets of big people when it should go to little people. I am a patriot. I am also a person who doesn't like soldiers. I've seen enough over the years to know they are not always the best representatives of our country. I don't believe they all sign up with a noble goal. I know many do, but just as many have no other choice. They are like anyone else, only they have to go and money their money where there mouth is. They actually have to fight. I respect that. But I also know that it is something not to be used lightly. I'll support our troops. Not because they are paragons of virtue or something more than anyone else, but because they are people stuck with a shit job and I don't want it to be a job that ever needs to be done.
And those yellow ribbons are just kinda gay.

Trying to get an ipod

Well, with all my free time that I like to waste, I am endeavouring to secure meself a free ipod. Free peoples cause me likes not spending money on shit. It's a perfectly legitimate deal as far as I know. It' was featured on The Screensavers again. This time they talked to the CEO of the company. I fulfilled my requirement, which was signing up for the free Blockbuster online offer. Now I can cancel and just sign up ten deadbeat friends and have them do the same. Even if it doesn't work out, there's nothing to lose. I also completed the free flat screen deal. So if anyone wants, go ahead and sign up and complete an offer so I can waste time with mp3s.

Friday the 19th

I know, it's hard, but today's different. Today is my father's birthday. Only he's not here for it. See, he passed away about four months ago and this is the first one without him. It's weird. I don't what else to say other than that I miss him and wish he was here.

The buns are back. Leia's mom in Episode III.  

What the hell am I doing?

Title says it all. This has become the in thing to do. Everyone has a blog. Ten year olds, forty year olds. Everyone thinks they have something to say and maybe someone will listen, or at least read it. I'm just doing my part to ramble and hope someone listens. But if they don't, then oh well. So, since I've noticed one or two hits since I put in the counter down below, I say welcome and enjoy the show. Or don't.

Go to the left people...

It's a time of retreat for us liberal progressive types. We lost. Whether fair and square or not, we got our asses handed to us. Now we need to regroup, stop crying over recounts and kick some ass. We need to solidify our message, our beliefs, our positions. If there was a consistent problem with Kerry's campaign it was the appearance of change. Now changing your opinion is good. No doubt about that, but we must do what the right did and convince them we are right. Studies show people on the right believe things not true. We must get people to believe things that are true. We must do what Karl Rove does and get the message out. No more being pussies. No more wishy washy stuff. Don't say yes civil unions, no marriage for gays. No, take a stand: gay marriage yes. War in Iraq: no. Be the opposite of them. Bush and his cronies do stand for things. We know that, their followers know that. They may not be the same things, but they are resolute. They are bullheaded, stubborn people. We bend in the wind, we listen to polls to craft our message. No longer. We lay out our points and we stick to them. We don't pander to groups. We let them know where we stand and they will come to us. Trust me, they will come. We are for people. Pure and simple. We are for the future. We are for science. We are for progress. Our ideas and views are almost always the exact opposite of them, so why can we not get that across? We lose to bold face liars. That has to end now. The choice in 2008 is not just putting Hillary on the ticket. That's asking for failure. We look to bright up and comers like Barak Obama and we stick to our guns.
Look at the map of red and blue. They have more land, but we have more people. And lots of people may want to keep their guns, but they want to keep their jobs more.

Doesn't it make you wish we'd never bothered getting the south back in the civil war? 

girrrrl gamers...ahhhh

So I gets me new EGM in the mail today...just smells fresh, with tons 'o new reviews of all the latest fall and holiday releases....you know it's close to the end of the year when arty Oscar films and high quality, long awaited video games debut....there's GTA: San Andreas, Metroid Prime 2 and of course, HALO, which I can play on my shining spanking new X-Box....hehe, but there's also a feature on the frag dolls, a group of women, who shock! play games and they kick ass....plus, they're pretty hot too...so head to their site, www.fragdolls.com and drool over the girls who will own you on X-Box Live...

I wants me more free stuff

Next one up is a free flat screen, couple choices....so go here, pick one out and then tell some friends...I recommend signing up to the free trials, but remember you do need a credit card to do this, in case you go over, but there's Real player, Blockbuster, so you know they're legit....give it a shot...it really does work...

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LET'S GET FREE STUFF!

Help me help you help me get some free stuff. It's legit. Totally. You sign up for a program, something like Columbia House or whatever, get ten others to do it and get something free, like an ipod in this case. It works. Techtv's Screen Savers did it and it's all fair. You're already signing up for credit cards and BMG programs so why not something for it. So here we go people, click the link and help each other out.

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gripe, gripe, gripe....under God...

I saw a newspaper story about a prayer breakfast and the reverend who called for a return to Christian values in America. Well, that’s all well and good, except we’re not all Christian and maybe we don’t agree on these so-called values.
It’s always been my contention that you can have values and morals regardless of religion. What they truly mean by returning to their religious values is not values at all, but beliefs. And beliefs are merely opinions. Everyone is entitled to them, but we are not entitled to force ours on everyone else.
So returning to these Christian ideals is a mistake in a country that proclaims religious freedom.
I’m not religious and yet I still have values and morals without believing in God. How did that happen?
Let’s see, I believe in things like common sense, honesty, hard work, integrity. Good solid words that should be universal. What these people contend to be values are things like no rights for gays, no abortions, family ideas. Things that they are entirely entitled to have differing opinions on, but they are not morals. They are opinions. What they are really calling for is a return to their ideas and their way of life. Not everyone wants that.
Bush did not receive a mandate to push Christian ideas on the rest of us by picking anti-abortion Supreme Court justices. To truly be American is to let others think things that you don’t like. It’s that old axiom, I may not like what you believe, but I’ll fight like hell for your right to believe it. Or words to that affect.
I don’t mind them holding these values. What I do mind is them telling everyone else that those are American values. They are not.
This nation was not founded to be a Christian paradise, it was founded to be a place where all religions could have freedom but were united by American values. We can disagree on those values, but we must separate a church mandated ideology from real world every day life.
In the war between religion and science, science wins because there are facts to back it up.

Now, to a quote by this reverend, he says that 9/11 was allowed to happen by God to wake us up and bring America back to him. Now to believe this you must first believe in God. No, this was not an act of God, but an act of man. If religious types wish to interpret it this way, then fine. But that belief should not guide are actions. Then we have a war of religion. And how can a religion claim to be better than another. Where’s the morality in that? That I’m better than you simply because you don’t believe what I believe? I don’t find that very moral.

To say that America needs to recover it’s Christian heritage is absurd. There is no state religion and religion has no place in state. Beliefs are a private thing. They say this is one nation under God. Well, feel free to interpret that to whatever God you see fit.

A return to Christian values is an insult to every single non-Christian in this country who is every bit as patriotic as they are. We are united not be religion, but by nation. We are all Americans and as such we hold differing views and ideas, but values and morals hold no allegiance to any one religion.

Choose to give up your right to choose...

I don't like religion. Sorry, I just don't buy into fantasies and then call them realities. If I want that, I'll watch TV. But, in this country you have religious freedom. That also includes the freedom to not have a religion. I'm an atheist. You know why? Cause I believe in logic, reason and common sense above FAITH. It's is about thinking, not feeling. It's about knowing, not believing. It's about this life, not the next. I may have no use for religion or the church, but everyone has the RIGHT to think whatever the hell they want. That is a good thing. But religion should have no place in government, in politics. It shocks me and saddens me that in the 21st century the majority who voted Bush back into office were guided more by their religious beliefs than their common sense. They'd rather lose health care than have two men married down the block. I thought we'd progressed. Real, tangible problems exist and yet people boast about their moral values. As if non religious people are devoid of them. And I find that terribly insulting, that just because I don't believe in a higher being that I am somehow not moral.

Now, to my point: freedom and life here in our Republic is about choice, it's about free will. You have the power to believe in the almighty or not, yet when you have the religious right with so much influence over the rest of us, there are problems. They dictate courses of actions and views that effectively take away choice from the people.

Take abortion:
pro-choice or
pro-life
The two terms insult me, as if those who support choice hate life. It is blatently not true. But the religious right would seek to revoke your right to choose what is best for you, your family and your unbonr child simply because they won'te LIKE your choice. How can they do that? It is not their life, yet they want to run it. They want to tell you what you can't do. Abortion is a big damn choice for those who do it, not a whim or a flight of fancy, but it should always be an option.

Gay marriage:
This is simply selfish, they want to keep marriage to themselves, but deny it to others based on their religion telling them that it is wrong to be gay. They believe it wrong, but those who are that way do not.

When does the one whose life is affected by the issue take back the right to choose what is best for them? Why do we turn over these decisions to others? Why must I be forced out of an option because a southern Christian woman doesn't like it?

It's about selfishness and free will. You may not have to like something, but in this country we have the right to choose how to live our lives, no one has the right to tell you how to live. We came here because of religious persecution, yet it's the non religious and different religious who are no persecuted.

Choice is the most important thing we have. It is the single most important value this country needs to hold on to. Your neighbor should never have the ability to dictate your life. That's not being very moral.

appy polly loggies me droogs....

Yep, in the words of me droog, Alex, apologies...yep, it is now time for the intelligent, articulate, progressive half of America to say we're sorry to the rest of the world......and we are, boy are we sorry. And we are just as confused as the rest of you out there, really. Let it be known that some of us do realize we are on the same planet and that it is not flat. It's round and ruled by George the second or 43 as we call him. Or Bushie as his wife calls him. Yes, the anti-Christ, the spawn of Barbara the quaker oats man confuses us Americans too....so time to say WTF? And go to www.sorryeverybody.com and reach out to the world, buy everybody a Coke and share a good cry...we fucked up world, we'll try and make it up to you...

Four letter words...

And right now, after the disgraceful election I do want to use lots of colorful four letter words, but there are only two that matter. Bush and Dumb. As in how can 59 million Americans be so dumb? Why oh why did they vote for him? Oh, it's because of moral values. Yeah, lying and bombing and invading are good things. It's just a simple fact that the voting populous doesn't really know what they're voting for. Just look to the PIPA study and you will see just how misinformed Republicans are. They beleive things not true, never said. We know live in a country where faith is valued more than truth, where what you believe is more important than what you can prove. I don't hate the right because they are different. They are entitled to different opinions. They can believe homosexuality is wrong. But they can not argue that it is a a choice. The fact is homosexuality just happens. They don't have to like it, but they need to recognize it. That is just one example where their beleif interferes with the truth. Most Republicans even still believe the lies about the war. Not whether it was right or wrong. We can argue that. No, they don't simply believe the truth of the war. That there were no WMD. That Saddam had nothing to do with Al Queida. They are entitled to opinions, but the truth can not be changed. The truth is real. Facts are real. Opinions are like assholes. And we know all about Republican assholes.
Here we are championing democracy around the world, trying to spread freedom. Bringing elections to Afgahnistan and Iraq, yet we can't get it right here. Democracy is messy, but if we still fuck it up over two hundred years later, how can we expect these other places to get it right within a couple years?
We're entering a dark time here. Bush will not hold back in the last four. He will not reach across the aisle. He does not care about bipartisanship. He will push his agenda and we will regress. All the progress made in the last three decades is about to be lost. Now is the time to fight the hardest. We can not give up. When we fight for our country it is the height of patriotism. Just taking it like a bitch is not being a patriot. Patriotism is supporting your country all of the time and your government when it deserves it. Let's make this government deserve it.